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INDEX 



New Zealand, Insect pests in, 103 

 Nicaragua, Bananas in, 239 

 Number of bunches per acre, 21, 255 

 Nurse plants, 48 



Nutritive value of bananas compared 

 with other foods, 121, 122 



OBIGHN of seedless varieties, 15 

 Ovary, 10, 14 



PANAMA, Bananas in, 239 



Fungus diseases in, 83, 231 

 Papua, Bananas in, 201 



Insect pests in, 101 

 Paraguay, Bananas in, 224 

 Parke, Dr., 129 

 Payable bunches, 51, 52 

 Peeper, 41-43 

 Perianth, 14 

 Peru, Bananas in, 224 

 Petal, 14 



Philippine Islands, Bananas in, 188 

 Plant, Banana, used for various 



purposes, 182, 197, 204 

 Plantains, 1-3, 226-230, 241, 247, 248 



Cultivation and cost, 227 

 Planting, 25 



Ploughing, 21, 22, 33-36 

 Polynesia, Bananas in, 196 

 Porto Rico, Bananas in, 246 

 Pouyat banana, 16 

 Preparation of land, 22 

 Preserved bananas, 113, 181, 227 

 Pritchard, Dr. Eric, 116 

 Propagation of plant, 3 

 Prospects for banana planting, 54 

 Pruning leaves, 43 



suckers, 21, 38-43 



QUEENSLAND, Bananas in, 192 

 Fertilizers in, 69-79 



RAVENALA, 8, 260-262 



Receipts, 51-53 



Recipes for cooking, 280 



Refrigeration, 167 



Replanting, 36 



Review of cultivation in Tropics, 177- 



255 



Rock banana, 266 

 Roots, 4 



Growth of, after cutting, 34, 35 

 Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 



161 

 Rubber, bananas as catch-crop, 50 



SANDWICH ISLANDS, Insect pests in, 



101 

 San Domingo, Bananas in, 251 



San Thome, Bananas in, 214 

 Schweinfurth, 203 

 Seedless varieties, Origin of, 15 

 Seeds of banana, 17-19 



used as flour, 204 

 Seychelles, Bananas in, 216 

 Shooting of bunch, 8, 11 

 Singapore, Bananas in, 186 

 Sloane, Sir Hans, 250 

 Society Islands, Bananas in, 200 

 Soils, Banana, in Jamaica, 56-64 



Analyses, 58, 59 



Solomon Islands, Bananas in, 202 

 Soudan, Bananas in, 204 

 South America, Bananas in, 218 

 Speke, 129, 203 

 Sports of banana, 16, 17 

 Stamens, 13 



Stanley, H. M., 125, 129, 204 

 Stem, 5 

 Sterility, 17 

 Straights, 51 

 Straits Settlements, Insect peste in 



101 



Strelitzia, 260-262 

 Stump, 45 

 Stumping, 22 

 Suckers, 4 



Choosing, 38 



Digging, 26 



for planting, 21, 25, 26 



Maiden, 25 



Plant, 39, 41 



Preparation of, 26 



Pruning, 21, 38-43 



Ratoon, 39, 41 



Sword, 25, 26 



Timing, 38-43 

 Surinam, Bananas in, 230 



Bee pests in, 106 



Fungus diseases in, 87 

 Sword leaves, 3 



suckers, 25, 26 



TANNIN in banana, 182 



Tibbies, Dr. William, 110-112, 118 



121 



Time of year for planting, 25 

 Transport by sea, 166 



without cool storage, 171 

 on land, 174 



Travancore, Bananas in, 181 

 Traveller's tree (Ravenala), 8, 260- 



262 



Trinidad, Bananas in, 247 

 Fungus diseases in, 85 

 Trunk, 5 



